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By Ioannis Ziogas
The impression on Ovid of Hesiod, an important archaic Greek poet after Homer, has been underestimated. but, as this ebook exhibits, a profound engagement with Hesiod's issues is crucial to Ovid's poetic international. As a poet who praised girls rather than males and opted for stylistic delicacy rather than epic grandeur, Hesiod is usually contrasted with Homer. Ovid revives this epic contention via atmosphere the Hesiodic personality of his Metamorphoses opposed to the Homeric personality of Virgil's Aeneid. Dr Ziogas explores not just Ovid's intertextual engagement with Hesiod's works but in addition his discussion with the wealthy scholarly, philosophical and literary culture of Hesiodic reception. a massive contribution to the research of Ovid and the broader poetry of the Augustan age, the ebook additionally kinds a good case examine in how the reception of prior traditions can turn into the driver of poetic construction.
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Diana wreaks havoc upon Porthaon’s condo (Porthaoniae . . . domus, Met. eight. 542–3). Porthaon was once Oeneus’ father (fr. 10a. 49–52 M–W). Althaea is Thestias (Met. eight. 452, 473), and her brothers are Thestiadae 135 Achelous simply because the finish of Achelous’ account is associated with the subsequent story of Hercules’ dying and apotheosis, his first tale of Perimele is said to the home of Porthaon, Meleager’s grandfather. within the Catalogue of girls, Achelous has an affair with Perimede, Porthaon’s grandmother: kaª KalÅkhn Kankhn te kaª e]É. eid[a] P. e. r. i. mdhná t i dì %celäiov urre©thv] m. ©. c. q. h. f. il»thti fr. 10a. 34–5 M–W and Calyce and Canace and gorgeous Perimede; together with her fair-flowing Achelous mingled in love Ovid turns Achelous from a personality within the Catalogue to a narrator of ehoie-poetry. The formulaic diction of (m©cqh fil»thti), used the following as a euphemism for rape, is conveyed with Achelous’ both euphemistic word huic ego uirgineum dilectae nomen ademi (‘I took clear of this loved one the identify of virgin’ Met. eight. 592). 60 therefore, Ovid’s Perimele corresponds to Hesiod’s Perimede, who bears Hippodamas to Achelous (cf. fr. 10a. forty five M–W). Hippodamas fathers Eureite, Porthaon’s spouse. Porthaon is the daddy of Oeneus (fr. 10a. 45–52 M–W), who's Althaea’s husband. Ovid’s Achelous omits the genealogical info, recounting as a substitute the metamorphosis of his loved Perimele into an island. within the Metamorphoses, Hippodamas is the daddy, no longer the son, of Perimele, and the woman is most likely metamorphosed prior to she provides beginning. Perimele and Hippodamas, although, evoke Achelous’ affair with Perimede and the beginning of Hippodamas, Meleager’s great-grandfather (see the genealogical chart on web page 133). The point out of the Porthaonia domus (Met. eight. 542–3) prior to the story of Perimele (Met. eight. 590–610) extra indicates a genealogical hyperlink among the Meleager episode and Achelous’ love affair. The genealogical thread of Achelous’ narrative, albeit implicit, isn't insignificant. through alluding to undefined, the river god signifies that he's the ancestor of Meleager, for whose sake Theseus and his associates participated within the Calydonian boar hunt. In a pleasant contact of tact, the host subtly forges a bond of friendship together with his site visitors, the allies of Porthaon’s residence. sixty one 60 sixty one (Met. eight. 304; 434). Thestius is Althaea’s father (Met. eight. 487; cf. West 1985, 47). Toxeus is Althaea’s son within the Catalogue (fr. 25. sixteen M–W), yet her brother in Ovid (Met. eight. 441). Kenney 2011 advert loc. is true to notice: “nel linguaggio delle Metamorfosi e´ un eufemismo in line with Çle ho usato violenzaÈ. ” word additionally that, if Merkelbach and West’s recovery is right (and it most likely is), t i d ì %celäiov corresponds to huic ego before everything of Hesiod’s and Ovid’s hexameters. at the rhetorical manipulation of genealogies as a way of forging alliances and friendships, see bankruptcy 1. 136 Coronis and Mestra mestra Having offered Achelous as a god in love with a mortal lady and as a narrator whose tales are associated with a refined genealogical thread, Ovid has the river god constitution his moment story as a Mestra-ehoie.